What Separates Me and You

Chapter 184 Was This How She Begged You

Lewis clasped Josephine’s hand again and slowly said, “Come with me. We’ll get the divorce certificate after your wounds are healed.”

Josephine slowly looked up after hearing this.

“Can we go now?”

Josephine lowered her eyes again and stared at her toes.

Lewis brought her to the car and helped her fasten her seat belts. Then, he went to the driver’s seat and drove out of the mansion’s compound.

When they arrived back at Styx Mansion, Lewis brought out the first aid kit and cleaned Josephine’s hands of the blood stains with the disinfectant.

Josephine sat motionless on the sofa, permitting Lewis’ actions.

He was very gentle, but Josephine still cringed when the alcohol touched the wounds on her fingertips.

“Stay still. Bear with me,” said Lewis as he held her hand steadfastly. Although he tried his best to be careful when disinfecting her wounds, Josephine would still tremble whenever the alcohol came in contact with them.

She could remember clearly the anguish she felt when the needle penetrated her fingertips.

She couldn’t put the pain into words, but she felt she could understand why their forefathers. would think the fingers are connected to the heart.

As enraged as Lewis had been, he had never treated her this way.

The most brutal act Lewis did to her was merely locking her up.

After Lewis cleaned her hands, he observed three of her fingernails were red with an easily discerned thin line of blood running through the middle.

He had a dangerous glint in his eyes that quickly disappeared.

After he finished applying medication to Josephine’s wounds, she was again covered in sweat, and her face was as pale as chalk

“It’s done.”

Josephine kept her head lowered all the time. When she heard him, she quietly withdrew her hand.

Lewis raised his hand to touch her face, but she turned her head slightly and dodged his hand.

her for several

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said, “Have

that, he promptly left, closing the door after

did she lift her head to look at the door. The door had closed off any remnants of

light that entered the room was minimal, even with the large

her fingers. Her little finger, index finger, and middle finger were

thunder came right after. Following an

gale battered at the willow tree in the lawn, breaking off a few

the sofa, hugging her knees tightly, her eyes staring blankly at the potted plant in a corner.

several hunks flung Mrs. Harrold to the muddy ground. Rain soaked her thoroughly, and her hair was in an utter mess. Under the ferocious

the ground and tried to look for a way

out on an errand when someone captured her and brought her here, wherever it was.

She could only hear dogs

the heavy rain pounding on her, the weight was too heavy for her to

a few steps before crashing to the ground again.

like statues in the rain

crawled, trying to find a way out, but when she fell again,

stained those shoes.

him as his

orders and didn’t do it out of my own will. Please forgive me, Master Lewis. I won’t repeat my mistake.” Getting no response from Lewis, she grabbed his leg and continued, “I’m just a lowly mald. I

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Alvarez’s instructions.

Lewis. I beg you. I don’t

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for Nancy all these years Roery maid in the household sucked up to her, and even outsiders

and about.

mind she would end up like this, less so Lewis having the nerve

in the smattering rain, but Lewis seemed to nothing. His face remained emotionless as he

while, Mrs. Harrold heard a cold voice above her saying, “Was this how

face more evident than before. She shook he frantically as she answered, “No! No, Madam

over. He pressed his mud-stained

her face increased, forcing her to

amiable